Abstracts
Assessment. 2001
Jun;8(2):213-9.
MMPI-2 short form: psychometric
characteristics in a neuropsychological
setting
Gass CS,
Luis CA
Neuropsychology, Division,
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami,
Florida 33125, USA.
A 180-item short form of
the MMPI-2 (MMPI-2-180) was recently
developed by Dahlstrom and Archer and has
been proposed for clinical use under special
circumstances. This study investigated the
psychometric characteristics of the
MMPI-2-180 in order to delineate its
strengths, limitations, and appropriate
scope of clinical application. Using a
neuropsychological referral sample (N =
205), we examined accuracy of the short-form
as it pertains to the following (a) the
prediction of basic scale scores and profile
code types, (b) the identification of
high-point scales, and (c) the
classification of scores as pathological (T
> or = 65) or normal range. The results
indicate that the MMPI-2-180 provides an
unreliable basis for predicting clinical
code types, identifying the high-point
scale, or predicting the scores on most of
the basic scales. In contrast, scores on the
MMPI-2-180 are accurate predictors of
whether the full-scale scores fall within
the pathological range (T > or = 65). These
findings suggest that (a) standard
interpretive procedures involving profile
configuration should not be used, in most
cases, with the 180-item short-form results,
(b) properly interpreted, this shortened
version provides potentially useful
information regarding the probable presence
of various problem areas, and (c) this
information is very limited when contrasted
with that obtained using the complete or
abbreviated (i.e., 370 item) version of the
MMPI-2.
PMID: 11428700 [PubMed -
indexed for MEDLINE]
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2003
Jul;18(5):521-7.
MMPI-2 short form
proposal: CAUTION
Neuropsychology Division,
Psychology Service (116-B), Veterans Affairs
Medical Center, 1201 N.W. 16th Street,
Miami, FL 33125, USA.
gass.carlton@miami.va.gov
The Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely
used in neuropsychology, though its length
(567 items) is sometimes prohibitive. This
study investigated some psychometric
characteristics of the 180-item version of
the MMPI-2 () in order to delineate its
strengths, limitations, and appropriate
scope of clinical application. Limited
reliability and poor predictive accuracy
were recently reported for many of the
MMPI-2 short-form scales in a study that
used 205 brain-injured patients. In the
present investigation, we used a psychiatric
sample (N=186) with normal neurological
findings to examine short-form accuracy in
predicting basic scale scores, profile code
types, identifying high-point scales, and
classifying scores as pathological (T>/=65)
or normal-range. The results suggest that,
even as applied to neurologically normal
individuals, the proposed short form of the
MMPI-2 is unreliable for predicting clinical
code types, identifying the high-point
scale, or predicting the scores on most of
the basic scales. In contrast, this short
form can be used to predict whether the
full-scale scores fall within the
pathological range (T>/=65). These findings
suggest that clinicians might be able to
salvage a small amount of information from
the shortened (180-item) version of the
MMPI-2 when MMPI-2 protocols are incomplete.
However, clinicians should not use a
standard interpretive approach with this
test, and routine clinical application is
unwarranted. Future evaluations of
short-form validity should provide a more
detailed examination of individual
protocols, including an analysis of the
frequency of accurate prediction of
full-form scores.
PMID: 14591447 [PubMed -
indexed for MEDLINE]
Assessment, Vol. 8, No. 2,
213-219 (2001)
© 2001 SAGE Publications
MMPI-2 Short Form: Psychometric
Characteristics in a Neuropsychological
Setting
Carlton S. Gass, Cheryl A. Luis
Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Miami, Florida
A 180-item short form of
the MMPI-2 (MMPI-2-180) was recently
developed by Dahlstrom and Archer and has
been proposed for clinical use under special
circumstances. This study investigated the
psychometric characteristics of the
MMPI-2-180 in order to delineate its
strengths, limitations, and appropriate
scope of clinical application. Using a
neuropsychological referral sample (N =
205), we examined accuracy of the short-form
as it pertains to the following (a) the
prediction of basic scale scores and profile
code types, (b) the identification of
high-point scales, and (c) the
classification of scores as pathological (T?
65) or normal range. The results indicate
that the MMPI-2-180 provides an unreliable
basis for predicting clinical code types,
identifying the high-point scale, or
predicting the scores on most of the basic
scales. In contrast, scores on the
MMPI-2-180 are accurate predictors of
whether the full-scale scores fall within
the pathological range (T? 65). These
findings suggest that (a) standard
interpretive procedures involving profile
configuration should not be used, in most
cases, with the 180-item short-form results,
(b) properly interpreted, this shortened
version provides potentially useful
information regarding the probable presence
of various problem areas, and (c) this
information is very limited when contrasted
with that obtained using the complete or
abbreviated (i.e., 370 item) version of the
MMPI-2
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Assessment, Vol. 7, No. 2,
131-141 (2000)
© 2000 SAGE Publications
A Shortened Version of the MMPI-2
W. Grant Dahlstrom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert P. Archer
Eastern Virginia Medical School
A psychometrically sound
method of prorating scores from a shortened
version of the MMPI-2 is presented to
approximate the full-scale raw scores on the
basic scales. After a brief review of the
history of short versions of the original
MMPI and their strengths and weaknesses,
justifications for developing and publishing
this new version are offered. In spite of
the risk of abuse by harassed and
over-worked clinicians, there are cogent
reasons to make this set of procedures
available to practitioners and research
investigators. These procedures were devised
on the data from the 2,600 men and women in
the original MMPI-2 restandardization sample
and cross-validated on a sample of 632 test
records from a psychiatric inpatient
service. The dependability of estimated
single raw scores as well as of the
patterning of the prorated profile patterns
is explored.
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Psychological
Assessment with the MMPI-2
by Alan F.
Friedman, David S. Nichols, Richard
W. Lewak, James T. Webb Lawrence
Erlbaum, publisher, August 2000, 728
pages
Excerpt: Short
forms of the test refer to reduced
sets of items on different scales...
At least 14 short forms were
developed ...
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Other MMPI Short Forms
Short forms of the MMPI
and MMPI-R included:
Mini-Mult (using two
methods; Kincannon, 1968), Midi-Mult (Dean,
1972), two Maxi-Mults (McLachlan, 1974;
Spera & Robertson, 1974), Hugo Short Form
(Hugo, 1972), Faschingbauer Abbreviated MMPI
(FAM; Faschingbauer, 1974), and MMPI-168
(Overall & Gomez-Mont, 1974).
